Podcast from today
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172wq4rhshwytm
Podcast from today
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172wq4rhshwytm
Following the BBC report quite a lot in the press about cultural genocide in Xinjiang at the moment or as the CCP calls it "campaign to systematically remove children from their roots.".
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a8989296.html
From Chris Patten
https://www.ft.com/content/3cdbb5f0-9d86-11e9-9c06-a4640c9feebb
All this proves is that over time whatever huffing and puffing emits from China’s “struggle school” of diplomacy, on the whole politics do not have too much impact on trade. Trading with China is always difficult.Hong Kong did pretty well for over a decade after 1997. By and large China let things be (though it went back on its promises to allow the continued development of democratic accountability). But the arrival of Xi Jinping as China’s president has changed things. He has rolled back Deng’s approach of a slow but steady opening up of the economy and to some extent politics. The party is now in charge of everything and Mr Xi has promoted a cult of personality.
What the Brits need to do is give HK residents from 97 (and their descendants) citizenship (live & work). Everything else is just wishful talk.